Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-12-30
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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has become so unpopular that spe-
Gil newspaper has been started called
the Anti-Concierge.
"A railroad eighty-six miles long
which runs to the summit of the Andes
near Lima, Perue has already cost the
Government $25. 600, 900.
President Diaz has shown special
favors to DIR. Mathilde Montoya, the
first woman to become regular prac-
ticing physicians in Mexico
The Austro-Hungarian regulars
and militia are to be supplied with
Manlichor repeating rifles by 1891.
Tho number required will be l. 2OO,-
900, and the cost will be $4,000, 900
tiorins 1t will take the empire ten
years to pay for the weapons.
In the city of Mexico every body
lives over a shop. if the house be two
stories. or use, the lower floor for
stabling the horses, quartering the
servants, etc. Even the millonaires
often rent the ground floor of their
swell residences for business purposes.
The English co-operatives have a
bank whose transactions amount to
$50, 600, 600 year. They have 1.4OO
stores, and do business of $780, 00O,-
600 year. Their 900, 600 members re-
ceive an annual profit of $15 0)0. 600.
Their profits during the past twenty
four years have $50 600, 900,
There is a firm in Berlin that en-
ploys two hundred girls who manufact-
ure little bundles of antisoptic dressing
material, with which all German SOL
diers are to be supplied in future, so
that they may be able to dress their
own wounds in the absence of a surgeon.
The girls are all dressed in white linen
cloaks and are strictly forbidden to
bring victuals or any thing else into
the TO IN where they work.
Tho results of the survey and last
census of India are that the area Of
the Peninsula of Hindostan is /, 3S2,-
624 square miles, and the population
253, S91. S21. Although immense tracts
of country are annually cultivated, ac-
cording TO the most recent survey TO-
900, 900 acres of land, suitable for cul-
tivation, have not rs yet been plowed.
At the same time, 12O. 00O 600 of acres
are returned as waste land. Public
Opinion
The Botanic Garden at Oxford Is
celebrate for its collection of aquatic
plants. The colored water lilies are
especially handsome this year. includ-
ing the blue water lily from the Nile
and the red water lily from the Ganges.
The former opens in the day time, but
The latter then remains closed. open
ing at night lit is pity" says a
recent visitor to the garden, that
these floral peacocks do not show their
tails together. IN Y Ledger
-Amescan newspapers are read
here now much more that they former
" were, and the Mexican people are
becoming somewhat familiar with
affairs in the United States. Still it is
deplorable fact that the American
and Mexican people know less about
zach other than they do about the
principal nations of Europe, whereas
:he very contiguity of their respective
territories make 1t desirable and
almost necessary that the reverse
should be the case. The TWo Repub-
les, city of Me1ico.
-Tolstoi says there are three kinds
IT love in Rnssia-elegant love. de-
voted love and active love. Elegant
owe is refined feeling of which one
toes not care to speak in common
way. and so it is customary to speak
If it only in French. Says he: at is
IN absurd and grotesque thing to say.
out l am convinced that there have
oeen and are-in certain circle
many persons, especially women, in
whom the love they feel for friends,
husbands and children would cease the
moment it was forbidden to be ex-
pressed in French
Sir Horace Rumbold, formerly
British Minister to the Argentine Re-
public, has written work on that part
If South America, in which he saws
hat bird life on the pampas, or South
American prairies. is so abundant as
o produce the effect of an open air
iviary. Brilliant little creatures,
with red or yellow breasts. cardinals,
nagpies and oven-birds dart in and
)ut of the grass and bushes in every
direction, while in the higher regions
numerous hawks and kites hover
'minously over these tempting pre-
serves" All are fearless in the pres
snce of man, except the spur winged
blower, an unfortunate bird, much dis
liked. and described as the spy and
'cold of the pampas. 1t has a hand
some. glossy plumage of lavender and
black, and shrill. discordant voice,
with which it pursues the sportsman.
frightening away game. = N Y
Ledger.